A Challenge Changes Everything
By: Destiney Weasley
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, the marauders (MWPP) or Lily.
Summary: James and Sirius make a bet over two girls at Hogwarts which they call the ice queens and their names are Lily Evan's from Gryffindor and Rhiannon Blithe from Ravenclaw.
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I really do appreciate them and they do help me with my writing. You guys are inspirational. Oh geesh here I go getting all mushy, onto the story.
-Chapter Three-
James stood at the barrier separating King's Cross from platform nine and three quarters. He was preparing himself for his break up with his current girlfriend,
Dinah a Ravenclaw sixth year. He had intended to break up with her at the end of last year but he had been distracted by the prank him and Sirius pulled on Snape; and he wasn't the type to dump a girl in a letter, no, it had to be face to face.
He was going to use his usual speech but it never failed. Tears always seemed to slowly fall down their cheeks before they turned and ran from him, not wanting him to see them in their moment of weakness. For him breaking up with them was the worst part but somehow there was always a girl around to make him forget about how bad he felt.
James strode threw the barrier coming face to face with a scarlet steam engine. He set out in search for his friends or Dinah, whom ever he saw first. He passed several groups of girls most of them flirting with him by smiling seductively and batting their long eyelashes.
Out of no where a tall slender girl with long raven hair and olive eyes sauntered up to him, wrapped her tanned arms around his neck and kissed him passionately on the lips.
"James I am so happy to see you, did you miss me?" she asked smiling up at him.
"Hey Dinah, how was your summer?" James asked avoiding her question. Truth was he hadn't missed her, he had completely forgotten that he was still dating her because he had been thinking about how to befriend Lily.
"It was okay" she replied, and then turned on the charm "it would have been better if I had spent it with you, alone."
She kissed him again slipping him some tongue. James didn't refuse his hormones wouldn't let him, he knew there was something he was supposed to do but at the moment he could remember what that was.
James was thinking about what he was supposed to do when he saw a blur of red ahead of him then he remembered he had to break up with Dinah.
"Listen Dinah, there is something that I need to tell you" James said becoming serious as he stared intently into her eyes.
"What is that James?" Dinah asked leaning up to his ear then proceeded to blow erotically into it knowing the effect it would have on him.
"Huh?" James asked losing his train of thought. At the moment all he could think of was finding an empty compartment on the train and locking himself and Dinah in it.
"What is it that you wanted to tell me" Dinah repeated.
"Right that..um let's get a compartment on the train first" James said grabbing her arm and pulling her towards the train. They walked threw several compartments until they found an empty one.
He sat her down then proceeded to sit across from her "this isn't working for me anymore" he paused to look away while she wiped her eyes "it's not you, it's me" he added feeling guilty.
"That's alright James, no need to go threw the whole spew I have heard all about it, anyway it was good while it lasted" she replied.
James stared at her in disbelief, did he know that little about the girls that he dated. He couldn't even tell how she was going to react because this sure wasn't the way he had thought. He had thought her to be one of the ones who run out of the compartment crying.
James watched as Dinah got up and walked over to him, was she smiling seductively? No, he had just broken up with her, why would she be smiling like that then? Soon she was standing right in front of him leaning down and whispering in his ear.
"If you ever want to have a good time, drop me an owl" she whispered.
She then turned and walked out of the compartment, James eyes were on her the whole time as he watched her hips sway back and forth gracefully.
"I just may do that" James said to no one for he was the only one in the compartment at the moment.
"You may do what?" Remus asked walking threw the open compartment door.
"Er nothing" James replied quickly "where is Padfoot?"
"He got stopped by Dinah on his way down to the compartment" Remus replied.
"Hey Prongs" Sirius made his way into the compartment.
"So I heard you were detained for a moment" James said smugly grinning at Sirius.
"Detained, shit that girl was bloody all over me. I think she wanted payback for you breaking up with her. Don't know why you did in the first place, she was easy in more ways than one" Sirius replied.
Dinah had thrown herself at Sirius but he pushed her away. James and Sirius had an unspoken rule they don't date someone that one of the marauders has just broken up with; however, the person is free to date after six months.
"Dinah doesn't look to happy" Peter said entering the compartment.
"I bet she isn't" James replied dully thinking about what he could be doing with her right now if he hadn't just broken up with her.
"Cheer up mate, you are going to need your charm when it comes to Lily" Sirius said grinning evilly. He had a new plan for Rhiannon.
"Suppose so" James replied. He watched as Sirius stood up from his seat "hey where you going?"
"Going to find Rin" Sirius responded before walking out the door.
"I can't believe you are going threw with this" Remus said curtly taking the seat that Sirius had been sitting in. He wasn't happy with James or Sirius he really didn't approve of what they were doing but they were his friends and that would never change.
~*~
Sirius searched compartment after compartment. He found Rin and her friends in one of the first compartments where Rin was already reading from a book and her three friends were talking animatedly to themselves.
Rin had three friends: Marah who had long dirty blonde hair and honeydew colored eyes, Eden had shoulder length dark brown hair and hazel eyes, and Sonya had extremely short black hair and pale green eyes.
"Sirius" Marah and Eden said enthusiastically.
"What are you doing up this way?" Sonya asked.
Sirius walked into the compartment and took a seat next to Rin. She didn't make any movement to even acknowledge his presence he assumed she was deeply engrossed in her book to notice he was present. Truth was she was ignoring him.
"Did the trolley already pass threw?" Sirius asked a half an hour later.
"Yeah, why?" Sonya asked.
"I was getting a little hungry, don't suppose someone could get me something to eat?" Sirius asked grinning at Marah and Eden.
Both girls jumped out of their seats and volunteered to go down to the trolley and get him something to eat. After they left the compartment he passed Sonya some galleons and soon it was just him and Rin in the compartment.
"Whacha reading Rin?" Sirius asked.
She didn't answer.
He tapped her on the shoulder.
She looked up in puzzlement "where did everyone go?"
"Sonya said something about meeting someone while Marah and Eden are off doing a little errand for me" Sirius replied "so what are you reading?"
"The Scarlet Letter" Rin mumbled pulling the book back up to her face wondering why here friends would leave without telling her.
"What is it about?" Sirius asked.
"Why"
"Dunno just interested I guess" Sirius replied.
He watched as she went back to her book not even bothering to tell him what it was about. So far his plan wasn't working to well. Genna had told him that Rin absolutely hated being interrupted and would do anything to get rid of the person interrupting her.
Sirius plan was to annoy her so much and then promise to leave her alone if she would spend one whole day with him, it was blackmail but hey desperate times call for desperate measures.
"So what is it about?" Sirius tried for a second round of questioning.
"Nothing that you would find interesting" Rin replied coldly not looking up from her book. He was starting to get on her nerves and annoying the hell out of her.
"Try me" he shot back.
She sighed.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked bluntly putting the book down.
Now he was getting somewhere with her "doing what?" Sirius asked innocently.
"Speaking to me" Rin clarified.
"You mean I am not allowed to talk to you, is it written somewhere? If it is, you should know by now that I don't follow the rules" Sirius replied jokingly.
"Look, Black, I don't know what you are up to but I am not interested in listening to your oh so fascinating conversations, so if you don't mind I am going to return to my book, hopefully in peace" Rin replied frigidly.
Damn talk about ice queen. She is the ice goddess, never met anyone colder than her. But at least Sirius was getting somewhere she was reaching her breaking point and he could sense that.
"You are on the quidditch team, aren't you?" Sirius asked.
"Yes" Rin replied curtly not looking up from her book.
"Chaser, am I correct?" he continued his questioning.
"Yes" she replied yet again.
"What made you try out for the team?" now this he was actually curious about. He didn't understand why someone like her would even think about trying out for quidditch and making the team, all the time it took away from studying.
She put her book down and stared Sirius straight in the eyes "what do you want from me?" she asked quizzically.
"Nothing, what makes you think that I want something from you?" Sirius asked trying to sound offended by her accusation.
"What will it take for you to leave me alone?" she persisted.
"But hun, I don't want to leave you alone, that would take all the fun out of life" Sirius replied grinning goofily as he tilted his head to the side.
"Don't hun me Black" Rin hissed.
"But sweetness" Sirius persisted.
"Black" Rin warned.
"But"
"Listen state your purpose or get out" Rin spat at him.
"Alright, I want to get to know you. Spend one whole day with me and I will promise to leave you alone" Sirius proposed.
She laughed a cold laugh.
"That is blackmail"
"Call it what you want" Sirius replied.
She laughed that cold laugh again.
"And how am I to know that you will leave me alone if I decide to spend a day with you-not that it would ever happen because hell would have to freeze over first" Rin replied bitterly
"You don't but that's what makes life interesting and I could make hell freeze over it would just take a simple little freezing charm" Sirius replied.
"I am leaving this is just to bizarre for me, see you when you are back to normal or should I say that I won't see you once you are back to normal" Rin said as she got up from her seat and walked over to the compartment door.
She heard footsteps behind her. She swung back around and Sirius had just gotten up from his seat. "SIT" she said as she pulled out her wand.
"Why"
"Because I said so" she turned to leave but heard him again. She swung around again and did the full body bind on him. She watched as he more or less fell back into the seat glaring at her.
She smirked at him he couldn't believe she had just done that to him and she enjoyed it. This was one crazy not to mention cold girl.
"I warned you Black, now I can have the peace that I have been waiting for" Rin turned and left the compartment leaving Sirius to be found later by Marah and Eden.
~*~
Lily walked into the compartment finding all of her friends waiting for her. Genna was pummeling the seat while Kaitlin and Janine were talking to each other.
"What's wrong with her?" Lily asked pointing to Genna.
"Something her sister said to her" Janine replied. Janine had long dark brown almost black hair and violet eyes.
"What would that be?" Lily asked.
"Something about the Ice Duchess getting the brains and Genna being the vain beauty in the family" Kaitlin replied. Kaitlin had short blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Don't call Rin that" Lily said.
"Why it's true" Kaitlin shot back.
"She is my friend and I would appreciate if you didn't talk about my friends that way" Lily replied calmly although she was starting to get angry with Kaitlin.
"It's never bothered you before" Kaitlin remarked.
"You know maybe it has but now I am finally saying something about it. Just don't talk about her like that again" Lily demanded.
"Are you choosing her over us?" Kaitlin asked threateningly as she and Lily stared daggers at each other.
"So, Lily you were made Head Girl, congrats" Janine cut in trying to break the tension that was building in the compartment.
"Thanks Janine" Lily replied curtly not taking her eyes off of Kaitlin.
"Do you know who Head Boy is?" Janine asked taking a glance at Genna who was pummeling her seat while cursing Rin under her breath 'the little wench thinks she is so damn smart' and then at Kaitlin who got up and left the compartment.
"Yeah Potter is" Lily replied before getting up and walking out of the compartment as well, she needed to walk around and clear her mind.
"This is just peaches and cream" Janine said to no one. The only one left in the compartment with her was Genna but she was too busy punching the seat cushion to realize that two of their friends had just gotten into an argument. Janine pulled out a book and began reading she had nothing better to do.
Lily wasn't sure where she was going to go. Maybe she would look for Rin and hang with her for a while before returning to her own friends. She passed compartment after compartment looking into them to see if Rin was in any of them.
"Hey Lily"
Lily turned around to address who ever had spoken to her. She was surprised to see that it was James Potter had he just called her by her first name.
"Did you need something Potter?" Lily asked.
"Whoa Lily, I think we are old enough to call each other by our first names, don't you think?" James asked patronizingly.
"Now Potter why would I want to break tradition and do that" Lily replied calmly folding her arms over her chest.
"Suit yourself I just figured that since we are Head Boy and Girl we should be nice to each other, you know to set an example for the students in this school" James said persuasively.
"I suppose you have a point Pot-oh all right James" Lily said coolly "first name basis it is then."
"Now that we are on a first name basis, we are friends right?" James asked as he grinned that boyish grin at Lily.
"No James we are not friends" Lily shot back irritated with his stupid grin on his stupid face with his stupid mop of messy hair.
"Why not Lily?" James asked dejectedly.
"Because James, friends don't call each other names, friends don't prank each other and friends most certainly don't hate each other" Lily said angrily.
"Lily it's been years since I have called you names I was young and stupid" James started but was interrupted by Lily.
"Brainless is more like it" Lily huffed.
"I wouldn't go that far" James retorted.
"I would, do you have anything else to say" Lily replied.
"As far as pranks go I prank everyone including my friends and I don't hate you" James added grinning cheekily cocking his head to the side.
"Load of dung, now if there isn't anything else I will be on my way" Lily said as she began to turn to exit the compartment.
"One more thing Lily" James half yelled to get her attention again, she turned back around waiting for his response "are you seeing anyone?"
"That is none of your business Potter-
"James, Lily its James don't forget, we are on a first name basis" James interrupted.
"Fine, James, that is none of your business and you need not worry whether I have a boyfriend or not because if for some devious reason you are interested you can forget it" Lily said coolly glaring daggers at him.
"Why is that?"
"Because I don't like you, not one bit" Lily replied matter-of-factly.
"Why don't you like me?" James asked
"You are the most pretentious masher that I have ever met with an ego the size of Australia and the reputation to go along with it" Lily replied.
"Those aren't valid reasons, those are all rumors, you haven't gotten to know the real me."
"James you are treading on dangerous territory here, just drop the damn subject" Lily spat venomously. James was annoying her to no end and it was really pissing her off.
"Just so you know Lily I don't hate you in fact I like you very much" James said sounding thoughtful his eyes flickered from her face to her chest then back up to her face.
"Thanks James you really made my day, if I look into the Mirror of Erised I will see myself as I am because of this very moment" Lily replied sarcastically.
Remus sniggered quietly to himself while both Peter and James looked at Lily not sure what she was talking about at all. Lily took the opportunity and fled from the compartment.
"Er am I the only one that didn't get it?" James asked.
"Nope not the only one" Peter confirmed.
They both looked at Remus as he continued to snigger behind his book "well Moony are you going to tell us or not?"
"The Mirror of Erised shows a person when they are truly happy it shows their hearts desire" Remus replied casually.
"Damn she is good" James said.
"I still don't get it" Peter added.
"She basically said that since James admits to liking her she is truly happy and it was her hearts desire all along" Remus simplified.
"Got it" Peter said although he still wasn't sure what was so funny about it or what was so good about Lily.
~*~*~*~
Author's Note: Well what do you think. Please tell me leave a review PLEASE. Okay really I would like to know what you think.
Thanks to sweetangle22, cai-dragonsaviour, dragon-soul, reader, Teresa, gwvixon21, Varia, and lilycat for your reviews.
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By: Destiney Weasley
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, the marauders (MWPP) or Lily.
Summary: James and Sirius make a bet over two girls at Hogwarts which they call the ice queens and their names are Lily Evan's from Gryffindor and Rhiannon Blithe from Ravenclaw.
Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I really do appreciate them and they do help me with my writing. You guys are inspirational. Oh geesh here I go getting all mushy, onto the story.
-Chapter Three-
James stood at the barrier separating King's Cross from platform nine and three quarters. He was preparing himself for his break up with his current girlfriend,
Dinah a Ravenclaw sixth year. He had intended to break up with her at the end of last year but he had been distracted by the prank him and Sirius pulled on Snape; and he wasn't the type to dump a girl in a letter, no, it had to be face to face.
He was going to use his usual speech but it never failed. Tears always seemed to slowly fall down their cheeks before they turned and ran from him, not wanting him to see them in their moment of weakness. For him breaking up with them was the worst part but somehow there was always a girl around to make him forget about how bad he felt.
James strode threw the barrier coming face to face with a scarlet steam engine. He set out in search for his friends or Dinah, whom ever he saw first. He passed several groups of girls most of them flirting with him by smiling seductively and batting their long eyelashes.
Out of no where a tall slender girl with long raven hair and olive eyes sauntered up to him, wrapped her tanned arms around his neck and kissed him passionately on the lips.
"James I am so happy to see you, did you miss me?" she asked smiling up at him.
"Hey Dinah, how was your summer?" James asked avoiding her question. Truth was he hadn't missed her, he had completely forgotten that he was still dating her because he had been thinking about how to befriend Lily.
"It was okay" she replied, and then turned on the charm "it would have been better if I had spent it with you, alone."
She kissed him again slipping him some tongue. James didn't refuse his hormones wouldn't let him, he knew there was something he was supposed to do but at the moment he could remember what that was.
James was thinking about what he was supposed to do when he saw a blur of red ahead of him then he remembered he had to break up with Dinah.
"Listen Dinah, there is something that I need to tell you" James said becoming serious as he stared intently into her eyes.
"What is that James?" Dinah asked leaning up to his ear then proceeded to blow erotically into it knowing the effect it would have on him.
"Huh?" James asked losing his train of thought. At the moment all he could think of was finding an empty compartment on the train and locking himself and Dinah in it.
"What is it that you wanted to tell me" Dinah repeated.
"Right that..um let's get a compartment on the train first" James said grabbing her arm and pulling her towards the train. They walked threw several compartments until they found an empty one.
He sat her down then proceeded to sit across from her "this isn't working for me anymore" he paused to look away while she wiped her eyes "it's not you, it's me" he added feeling guilty.
"That's alright James, no need to go threw the whole spew I have heard all about it, anyway it was good while it lasted" she replied.
James stared at her in disbelief, did he know that little about the girls that he dated. He couldn't even tell how she was going to react because this sure wasn't the way he had thought. He had thought her to be one of the ones who run out of the compartment crying.
James watched as Dinah got up and walked over to him, was she smiling seductively? No, he had just broken up with her, why would she be smiling like that then? Soon she was standing right in front of him leaning down and whispering in his ear.
"If you ever want to have a good time, drop me an owl" she whispered.
She then turned and walked out of the compartment, James eyes were on her the whole time as he watched her hips sway back and forth gracefully.
"I just may do that" James said to no one for he was the only one in the compartment at the moment.
"You may do what?" Remus asked walking threw the open compartment door.
"Er nothing" James replied quickly "where is Padfoot?"
"He got stopped by Dinah on his way down to the compartment" Remus replied.
"Hey Prongs" Sirius made his way into the compartment.
"So I heard you were detained for a moment" James said smugly grinning at Sirius.
"Detained, shit that girl was bloody all over me. I think she wanted payback for you breaking up with her. Don't know why you did in the first place, she was easy in more ways than one" Sirius replied.
Dinah had thrown herself at Sirius but he pushed her away. James and Sirius had an unspoken rule they don't date someone that one of the marauders has just broken up with; however, the person is free to date after six months.
"Dinah doesn't look to happy" Peter said entering the compartment.
"I bet she isn't" James replied dully thinking about what he could be doing with her right now if he hadn't just broken up with her.
"Cheer up mate, you are going to need your charm when it comes to Lily" Sirius said grinning evilly. He had a new plan for Rhiannon.
"Suppose so" James replied. He watched as Sirius stood up from his seat "hey where you going?"
"Going to find Rin" Sirius responded before walking out the door.
"I can't believe you are going threw with this" Remus said curtly taking the seat that Sirius had been sitting in. He wasn't happy with James or Sirius he really didn't approve of what they were doing but they were his friends and that would never change.
~*~
Sirius searched compartment after compartment. He found Rin and her friends in one of the first compartments where Rin was already reading from a book and her three friends were talking animatedly to themselves.
Rin had three friends: Marah who had long dirty blonde hair and honeydew colored eyes, Eden had shoulder length dark brown hair and hazel eyes, and Sonya had extremely short black hair and pale green eyes.
"Sirius" Marah and Eden said enthusiastically.
"What are you doing up this way?" Sonya asked.
Sirius walked into the compartment and took a seat next to Rin. She didn't make any movement to even acknowledge his presence he assumed she was deeply engrossed in her book to notice he was present. Truth was she was ignoring him.
"Did the trolley already pass threw?" Sirius asked a half an hour later.
"Yeah, why?" Sonya asked.
"I was getting a little hungry, don't suppose someone could get me something to eat?" Sirius asked grinning at Marah and Eden.
Both girls jumped out of their seats and volunteered to go down to the trolley and get him something to eat. After they left the compartment he passed Sonya some galleons and soon it was just him and Rin in the compartment.
"Whacha reading Rin?" Sirius asked.
She didn't answer.
He tapped her on the shoulder.
She looked up in puzzlement "where did everyone go?"
"Sonya said something about meeting someone while Marah and Eden are off doing a little errand for me" Sirius replied "so what are you reading?"
"The Scarlet Letter" Rin mumbled pulling the book back up to her face wondering why here friends would leave without telling her.
"What is it about?" Sirius asked.
"Why"
"Dunno just interested I guess" Sirius replied.
He watched as she went back to her book not even bothering to tell him what it was about. So far his plan wasn't working to well. Genna had told him that Rin absolutely hated being interrupted and would do anything to get rid of the person interrupting her.
Sirius plan was to annoy her so much and then promise to leave her alone if she would spend one whole day with him, it was blackmail but hey desperate times call for desperate measures.
"So what is it about?" Sirius tried for a second round of questioning.
"Nothing that you would find interesting" Rin replied coldly not looking up from her book. He was starting to get on her nerves and annoying the hell out of her.
"Try me" he shot back.
She sighed.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked bluntly putting the book down.
Now he was getting somewhere with her "doing what?" Sirius asked innocently.
"Speaking to me" Rin clarified.
"You mean I am not allowed to talk to you, is it written somewhere? If it is, you should know by now that I don't follow the rules" Sirius replied jokingly.
"Look, Black, I don't know what you are up to but I am not interested in listening to your oh so fascinating conversations, so if you don't mind I am going to return to my book, hopefully in peace" Rin replied frigidly.
Damn talk about ice queen. She is the ice goddess, never met anyone colder than her. But at least Sirius was getting somewhere she was reaching her breaking point and he could sense that.
"You are on the quidditch team, aren't you?" Sirius asked.
"Yes" Rin replied curtly not looking up from her book.
"Chaser, am I correct?" he continued his questioning.
"Yes" she replied yet again.
"What made you try out for the team?" now this he was actually curious about. He didn't understand why someone like her would even think about trying out for quidditch and making the team, all the time it took away from studying.
She put her book down and stared Sirius straight in the eyes "what do you want from me?" she asked quizzically.
"Nothing, what makes you think that I want something from you?" Sirius asked trying to sound offended by her accusation.
"What will it take for you to leave me alone?" she persisted.
"But hun, I don't want to leave you alone, that would take all the fun out of life" Sirius replied grinning goofily as he tilted his head to the side.
"Don't hun me Black" Rin hissed.
"But sweetness" Sirius persisted.
"Black" Rin warned.
"But"
"Listen state your purpose or get out" Rin spat at him.
"Alright, I want to get to know you. Spend one whole day with me and I will promise to leave you alone" Sirius proposed.
She laughed a cold laugh.
"That is blackmail"
"Call it what you want" Sirius replied.
She laughed that cold laugh again.
"And how am I to know that you will leave me alone if I decide to spend a day with you-not that it would ever happen because hell would have to freeze over first" Rin replied bitterly
"You don't but that's what makes life interesting and I could make hell freeze over it would just take a simple little freezing charm" Sirius replied.
"I am leaving this is just to bizarre for me, see you when you are back to normal or should I say that I won't see you once you are back to normal" Rin said as she got up from her seat and walked over to the compartment door.
She heard footsteps behind her. She swung back around and Sirius had just gotten up from his seat. "SIT" she said as she pulled out her wand.
"Why"
"Because I said so" she turned to leave but heard him again. She swung around again and did the full body bind on him. She watched as he more or less fell back into the seat glaring at her.
She smirked at him he couldn't believe she had just done that to him and she enjoyed it. This was one crazy not to mention cold girl.
"I warned you Black, now I can have the peace that I have been waiting for" Rin turned and left the compartment leaving Sirius to be found later by Marah and Eden.
~*~
Lily walked into the compartment finding all of her friends waiting for her. Genna was pummeling the seat while Kaitlin and Janine were talking to each other.
"What's wrong with her?" Lily asked pointing to Genna.
"Something her sister said to her" Janine replied. Janine had long dark brown almost black hair and violet eyes.
"What would that be?" Lily asked.
"Something about the Ice Duchess getting the brains and Genna being the vain beauty in the family" Kaitlin replied. Kaitlin had short blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Don't call Rin that" Lily said.
"Why it's true" Kaitlin shot back.
"She is my friend and I would appreciate if you didn't talk about my friends that way" Lily replied calmly although she was starting to get angry with Kaitlin.
"It's never bothered you before" Kaitlin remarked.
"You know maybe it has but now I am finally saying something about it. Just don't talk about her like that again" Lily demanded.
"Are you choosing her over us?" Kaitlin asked threateningly as she and Lily stared daggers at each other.
"So, Lily you were made Head Girl, congrats" Janine cut in trying to break the tension that was building in the compartment.
"Thanks Janine" Lily replied curtly not taking her eyes off of Kaitlin.
"Do you know who Head Boy is?" Janine asked taking a glance at Genna who was pummeling her seat while cursing Rin under her breath 'the little wench thinks she is so damn smart' and then at Kaitlin who got up and left the compartment.
"Yeah Potter is" Lily replied before getting up and walking out of the compartment as well, she needed to walk around and clear her mind.
"This is just peaches and cream" Janine said to no one. The only one left in the compartment with her was Genna but she was too busy punching the seat cushion to realize that two of their friends had just gotten into an argument. Janine pulled out a book and began reading she had nothing better to do.
Lily wasn't sure where she was going to go. Maybe she would look for Rin and hang with her for a while before returning to her own friends. She passed compartment after compartment looking into them to see if Rin was in any of them.
"Hey Lily"
Lily turned around to address who ever had spoken to her. She was surprised to see that it was James Potter had he just called her by her first name.
"Did you need something Potter?" Lily asked.
"Whoa Lily, I think we are old enough to call each other by our first names, don't you think?" James asked patronizingly.
"Now Potter why would I want to break tradition and do that" Lily replied calmly folding her arms over her chest.
"Suit yourself I just figured that since we are Head Boy and Girl we should be nice to each other, you know to set an example for the students in this school" James said persuasively.
"I suppose you have a point Pot-oh all right James" Lily said coolly "first name basis it is then."
"Now that we are on a first name basis, we are friends right?" James asked as he grinned that boyish grin at Lily.
"No James we are not friends" Lily shot back irritated with his stupid grin on his stupid face with his stupid mop of messy hair.
"Why not Lily?" James asked dejectedly.
"Because James, friends don't call each other names, friends don't prank each other and friends most certainly don't hate each other" Lily said angrily.
"Lily it's been years since I have called you names I was young and stupid" James started but was interrupted by Lily.
"Brainless is more like it" Lily huffed.
"I wouldn't go that far" James retorted.
"I would, do you have anything else to say" Lily replied.
"As far as pranks go I prank everyone including my friends and I don't hate you" James added grinning cheekily cocking his head to the side.
"Load of dung, now if there isn't anything else I will be on my way" Lily said as she began to turn to exit the compartment.
"One more thing Lily" James half yelled to get her attention again, she turned back around waiting for his response "are you seeing anyone?"
"That is none of your business Potter-
"James, Lily its James don't forget, we are on a first name basis" James interrupted.
"Fine, James, that is none of your business and you need not worry whether I have a boyfriend or not because if for some devious reason you are interested you can forget it" Lily said coolly glaring daggers at him.
"Why is that?"
"Because I don't like you, not one bit" Lily replied matter-of-factly.
"Why don't you like me?" James asked
"You are the most pretentious masher that I have ever met with an ego the size of Australia and the reputation to go along with it" Lily replied.
"Those aren't valid reasons, those are all rumors, you haven't gotten to know the real me."
"James you are treading on dangerous territory here, just drop the damn subject" Lily spat venomously. James was annoying her to no end and it was really pissing her off.
"Just so you know Lily I don't hate you in fact I like you very much" James said sounding thoughtful his eyes flickered from her face to her chest then back up to her face.
"Thanks James you really made my day, if I look into the Mirror of Erised I will see myself as I am because of this very moment" Lily replied sarcastically.
Remus sniggered quietly to himself while both Peter and James looked at Lily not sure what she was talking about at all. Lily took the opportunity and fled from the compartment.
"Er am I the only one that didn't get it?" James asked.
"Nope not the only one" Peter confirmed.
They both looked at Remus as he continued to snigger behind his book "well Moony are you going to tell us or not?"
"The Mirror of Erised shows a person when they are truly happy it shows their hearts desire" Remus replied casually.
"Damn she is good" James said.
"I still don't get it" Peter added.
"She basically said that since James admits to liking her she is truly happy and it was her hearts desire all along" Remus simplified.
"Got it" Peter said although he still wasn't sure what was so funny about it or what was so good about Lily.
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